No one likes contracts, but understanding them is essential. In this GDC 2017 talk, Founding Partner Chris Reid takes game developers through five key contracts encountered in game development and explains why they matter, when they come up and what terms to look out for.

GDC 2016 - Practical Law 101 for Indie Developers: Not Scary Edition

The legal side of games isn't sexy, but it doesn't have to be scary. In the number one audience rated GDC 2016 Summit talk, Managing Partner Chris Reid offers a practical roadmap to the common legal issues that most developers will actually encounter.

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Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Published Spring 2009 - A detailed analysis of the copyright issues raised by user generated content using in-game assets and engines (called machinima). This paper walks through the history of video game copyright cases and concludes by analyzing the hypothetical application of US copyright law's fair use doctrine to machinima.

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